Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-20

| General State News. | QUEER FELLOWS.
 A queer thing in connection with the jew
 elry robbery at Bridgeport was that the men left S3. 60 in the saloon through which they
 entered, apparently to pay for the wine and
 cigars they took there.
 CONTEST.
 Middlesex county is just at present excit,.
 ed over the contest for the office of prose-
 cutting agent of the county between Lowell
 Hall, the present incumbent, and Arthur Calef, ir. Calef was elected yesterday. | A PROMINENT MERIDEN MAN DEAD.
 Hiram F. Yale, aged 63, prominent citi- zen of Meriden who has been representative
 and held many town and city offices, died yesterday morning of consumption. All his life he followed farming and was a staunch 1 Democrat.
 WEE LITTLE ONE.
 WATERBURY, July 19.-Mrs John Gully, living on East Main street near old Mill green, Bridgeport, gave birth to a daughter Sunday morning which weighed just two and one-half pounds. The child is perfectly l formed and it is thought will live. l KILLED NEAR AUSTRALIAN SHORES. 1 News was received on Saturday of the death of Mark Heffion, aged nineteen, son of George Heff1on of Deep River. He left home on a vessel last fall and was killed when near an Australian port by falling from the masthead to the deck. He was buried at sea.
 1 ANOTHER DEATH IN NEW LONDON.
 Mir. Andrew Wesson, for many years pres 1 ident of the Croton Fire Insurance company l of New York, died on Sunday at the home of | his son-in-law, MT. Mason Young, at New London. He was man widely known and | very highly esteemed. The funeral was at | New London yesterday afternoon. DEATH oD PROMINENT NEW LONDON MAN. William D. Pratt, one of the oldest, best known and highly respected residents of New London, died there Monday in his S0th year. He spent his active business life in the whal- ing firm of N. 6 W. w. Billings, and was deputy to Collector of Customs J. P. O. Mather from 1858 to 1861.
 HOW MIR. CoGER CELEBRATED.
 The Newtown Bee remarks: ''Mr Eli B. Coger reached his 73d birthday July 10, and had to celebrate in a rather unsatisfactory manner. Thursday evening, while running to head off COW, he tripped and fell, break ing his collar bone. Dr. N. M. Smith re- duced the fracture and the patient is doing nicely. We hope to see him about as usual ere long,"
 SWAPPING TURTLES HAVE A FIGHT.
 The Danbury News has a snapping turtle story. The fight occurred at Danbury Satur- day. It runs thus: On Saturday morning just about sunrise E. Rundle, in the employ of John Clarke at the lake, heard a great splashing in the water and got up and went out to see what caused it. He was greatly alarmed to see what looked like a man in the lake drowning. He could see him come to the surface and splash about and then disap- pear. The object was just outside of the dock, near where the boats were fastened He called to MT. Clarke and they hastened out to rescue the man; when they reached the spot with boat they were greatly aston ished to see two huge turtles engaged in terrible fight. For number of feet in cir conference the water had been rolled and was the color of mud itself. The water seemed to boil up, as if coming from huge spring. Messrs. Clark and Rundle prepared themselves and when they again appeared in deadly lock each one caught hold of turtle and succeeded in land ing the pair. In order to keep them in the boat they were obliged to stun them with an oar. MT. Clark is keeping them alive and feeding them, and as soon as they are nicely | fatted they will be served in huge free soup 1 to Danbury peoDle